Beijing Mandarin "immersion" trip

Ok, so the decision is "To go or Not to go"

Let's just put down all the pros and cons and thoughts around this issue. I'll get my mom to send some info over soon.

A world government can never be good

Because to create a world government, a government has to completely alienate its own people to be possible.
And any democratic, non-authoritarian government takes its power from its people.

This is not possible in a world government, which must alienate to become existant.

Therefore, a world government must be authoritarian. It must also alienate its people somehow. In today's world, this could mean DNA alterations and RFID tracking chips, and intense propaganda.

"""I welcome any challenge to my proof above.

First Amendment: The difference between group of people must be identifiable, or an illusion of the difference must be implanted in the member's brain.
For example, Terrorist and non-terrorist. Both are essentially human and there are no biological or physical differences. However, the stereotype of it causes us to identify between these two groups of people.

What can we do to improve our Year7 Camp skills?

As you know, we have found ourselves surrounded by a big bunch (18 kids) of Year 7s. These people aren't evil or anything, but to make sure they maintain some form of order, we should begin to brainstorm and evaluate some ideas on how to become better camp counsellors.

Any ideas? Please discuss in the comments area.

I think we should improve our decision-making mechanisms and organization. By that, I mean that we sort things out faster.

On my part, I suppose we also need to do things a little quicker than the rest of our Year 7 SURVIVORS.

We should also brainstorm certain things we need to talk about, at the next meeting/briefing.

Personally, I don't mind too much about people sneaking out of tents at night, so long as they don't hurt themselves so badly they have to go home. But still, we should be a little stricter to start with.
The Other Eugene will designated Eugene II (two). I suppose Gene might be the better abreviation (Sam for you, if you like...).

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Off topic.... I suppose the only thing I'm worried about is gorging (I mean the rope climbing thing) and sleeping on the first night.

What concerns do you have?

What's your stance on feminism?

I say feminism because I think it should be defined separately with the Woman's Rights campaign.

So, this post is simply to ask you for your stance and/or opinion. Because I'm very confused about what you think.

Also, don't tell me you got no stance, because you have to have some opinion about it.

Note: You don't need to be "politically correct", because you won't offend anyone in the least way.

Donald Tsang is a puppet controlled by the Commies in Beijing!

Like many politicians, Donald Tsang seems to think that most people will let him off the hook if he said sorry for whatever they said wrong.

But something like the cultrual revoulution is way too hard to get wrong. How can something like that slip into a structured response to a question? It's crazy.

And I expect him to stand up in front of his office, in front of all the media and such, and deliver a detailed explanation as to why he said that.

My first impression looking at him was : Is some Chinese government Propaganda official telling him what to say, or is he MAD?

I know that there's every chance that it could have just been a slip of mouth. But he really sounded like he wanted to convince me that extreme democracy would led to a disastrous consequence like the Cultural Revolution.

Or maybe that's exactly what the Communist Party thinks?

Dude, get out of the queue!

3 things gone wrong at the Parent's Evening:

- This is madness! Why is their 5 late-comers ahead of me? These people are ruining the schedule system of the sacred Timetable. They are coming in late, yet are allowed to get in my way. This is my spot!
This is outrageous crap at the Parent's Evening 2007.

- This is blindness! Why are these idiots barging into someone else's timeslot when they aren't even supposed to be there? Why can't they just make their apppointment or tell their moms and dads to phone the teacher up?

- This is idiocracy! Why the hell are you talking into my time-slot? If you want to talk longer, talk when you know that the teacher will be vacant and no one is standing behind you, looking at a watch tuned to the second according to an atomic clock and hoping that they would finish faster and be more considerate.

These people should stop sucking away at my time and learn to be punctual!!!!!!
I've had a total of 6 people come into my way and I convinced 2 people that they were late and this was my timeslot and that they should come in the last moment when there were vacant teachers. One gal fell for my excuse that I had to go to a piano lesson after this and let me ahead of the queue. (hahahahahaha!)

The last 3 were at Ms A's desk. 2 guys and a gal were waiting, one later than the other. There was one who was supposed to come at 5:00 sharp and turned up right at my appointment at the last minute. I ended up sitting out the 20 minutes+. When I finally got my turn, Ms A said that she thought there would be a big fight for my slot.

So, I ended at 7:20, 10 minutes before everything was to shut down.